True, but (a) ESR is usually pretty good about tracing etymologies and (b) the "intentional typo" is a simpler explanation and common elsewhere (cf. "pr[o0]n", others that I can't remember off hand).
My bet is that the Swedish chef resemblance is a coincidence. Well that was diverting. We now return you, er, me to our regularly scheduled round of DBI programming. Whee. -m On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:50:12PM -0500, Ric Messier wrote: > Doesn't mean that the mangling wasn't originally inspired by the Swedish > Chef. :-) > > > > > I think this is coincidental. My authoritive source on these matters is > > the Jargon File; main site appears to be unreachable right now (I get a > > redirect to EFF's home page, for some reason) but here from a mirror: > > > > http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/b/borken.html > > > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- Michael Jinks, IB # Enterprise Networks & Systems Administration # UofC Reader! Think not that technical information ought not be called speech; -- Anonymous, "How to decrypt a DVD" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
